This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. H. Vickers (Albert Henry Vickers) (Vickers, Albert Henry) Service no 10022 Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Born in Stockwell; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell Killed in action on 28 January 1917, aged 20 CWGC: "Son of Thomas and Sarah Vickers, of Stockwell, London." Remembered at Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France and Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the censuses Albert Henry Vickers, 15 in 1911, was one of 10 surviving children (of 11) of Thomas George Vickers, 52, a stoker for Lambeth Workhouse, from Poplar, east London, and Sarah Vickers, 51, from Stockwell. Thomas and Sarah lived at 26 Moat Place, a four-roomed tenement, with three of their children: George Vickers, 25, a milk porter, William Vickers, 13, and Georgina Vickers, 11. The Vickers family had lived at that address since at least 1901. Meanwhile, Albert was an apprentice bootmaker living with the Goward family at 39 Elm Road, New Malden. |
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 THESE WERE OUR SONS: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial by Naomi Lourie Klein. Every name is listed, with biographies for all those identified. The introduction gives an overview and the story of how the memorial was erected. £3 from every copy sale goes directly to the Friends of Stockwell War Memorial and Gardens Available from www.elefantbooks.com. £8.99 plus £2.75 p&p Special deals for SW8 and SW9 residents ♦ Charles Parker - family man and engineer ♦ The four Rance brothers ♦ Triple tragedy: the Desaleux brothers ♦ Samuel Levy's wife ♦ Frank Mason, 16, the youngest ♦ Cecil Philcox - Military Cross winner ♦ Chris Dartnell - shell shocked ♦ Cecil Philcox - killed in training ♦ Harold J. Hill - a riddle solved ♦ Harry Albert Nixon - syphilis treatment and conduct charges |
Albert Henry Vickers |